- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Adam Pupchek was born Desidorio Lakatosh in Berehovo, Ukraine, on the Hungarian border. He spent his first four years in the Svalyava Baby Home, before joining the Pupchek family of Leanne (Stuart), a professor of communication, and Bill, flight crew training instructor, in Columbia, SC. He was joined after one year by his brother. Adam is of Ukrainian and Roma descent. He grew up in Mooresville, NC, and went to Iredell-Statesville public schools, where he participated in cross-country running, show choir and high school musicals.
Adam's breakthrough and debut role was Jack, the lead male character and "dude-in-distress" in Athena: The Goddess of War (2014). Performing background in Banshee (2014) and Paper Towns (2015) confirmed his passion for acting.
His fondest wish is to enrich the lives of the children who followed him into his Svalyava orphanage when he is financially stable and able.
- IMDb mini biography by: Leap
- Ambiguous ethnicity
- Adam retained his Ukrainian nationality by Ukrainian law until his was 18.
- Adam and his family lived in L'viv, Ukraine in 2011-2012 when his mother held a Fulbright Scholarship. He attended high school there, while his father found family in Western Ukraine.
- According to modern maps, Adam's birthplace, Berehovo, should have been assigned to Hungary after WWII instead of Ukraine.
- His father's first language was Ukrainian, so they were able to communicate right away. His father's grandparents all immigrated to the U.S. from Austria-Hungary, now western Ukraine and south-eastern Poland.
- He took Ukrainian army training and can clean a Kalashnikov.
- After my parents adopted me in Svalyava, we spent some time in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It was just seven years after Independence, and the country was very poor. One day we were eating at a lunch counter when a lady sat beside me. She looked very tired and very hungry. I gave her my sandwich. She cried and cried and thanked me. I remember that moment so well. I know I am to-the-moon lucky, and I hope that I can make a real difference by giving.
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